FILMS

Ari is in post-production on his second feature, a drama starring Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, and Mary Beth Piel. Ari won a Student Oscar for HELICOPTER, which was called “the best short film of the year” by Film Threat and won top prizes at short-film festivals in the US, France, Germany & Brazil. His absurdist feature film ADVENTURES OF POWER, in which he starred alongside Jane Lynch, Michael McKean and Adrian Grenier, premiered at Sundance and won best-of-festival prizes at eight film festivals. It was the audience’s top-rated comedy at the Karlovy-Vary International Film Festival and was called “one of the funniest films in recent years” by New York Magazine. Ari’s previous short film CULTURE was the inspiration for a filmmaking collective in the former Yugoslavia, which he later joined. He has written and directed videos & short films for various artists, for Showtime’s “United States of Tara,” and for Nickelodeon star Lucas Cruikshank.